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Many people in self-proclaimed addiction recovery experience compromised health and premature death due to a unique form of conceptual blindness—the failure to perceive nicotine dependence on par with the other drug dependencies they have shed from their lives. On August 23, 2013, I posted a blog noting the following 12 conclusions drawn from available scientific(……)

The threats to health that occur during active addiction have been widely communicated in the popular media and in the scientific literature, but the health profile of people in long-term recovery from substance use disorders remains something of a mystery. While one might assume that physical and emotional health rapidly improves following recovery initiation and(……)

I will be posting a blog in the coming weeks that summarizes the results of a new health survey with imbedded questions related to addiction recovery. The results will underscore once again the role nicotine addiction plays in the compromised health of people in recovery from other addictions. As a prelude to that forthcoming blog,(……)